A new spatial study of Des-Cubierta Cave in Spain shows that Neanderthals deliberately brought large horned animal skulls deep into a narrow gallery, placing them in the same area again and again. In the mountains north of Madrid, near Pinilla del...

A routine thermal‑spring survey led scientists deep into a mountain cave, where they uncovered a hidden underground lake hundreds of feet below. Beneath the southern Albanian border with Greece, scientists have identified a massive thermal lake that...

Ancient Australian cave bones reveal new clues to a long‑standing mystery, sparking fresh scientific investigation. Deep beneath the surface of South Australia, skeletal remains recovered from flooded caverns are providing researchers with a novel...

archives—the AI generated a heat map highlighting areas where environmental conditions were most conducive to both cave formation and human occupation. “We taught AI to hand us a heat map of places most likely to have the converging factors that could...

A sealed prehistoric cave near Haifa preserves rare pre‑human life traces, stunning archaeologists with pristine evidence from a vanished world. Archaeologists have uncovered a cavern on the periphery of Fureidis, a community just south of Haifa near...

Forgotten museum bone fragments and children’s teeth uncover a new glimpse into Neanderthal life. A few minute Neanderthal bone fragments and teeth have opened a window onto the earliest phases of growth in our extinct cousins. New research indicates...